Manchester opera house

HÀ NỘI - Opera Australia will perform La Boheme at the Hà Nội Opera House on Sunday. This will be Opera Australia's first-ever performance in Việt Nam, in which 27 talented artists will perform Giacomo Puccini's (1858-1924) smash-hit La Boheme. Nearly 120 years after Puccini wrote La Boheme, this story of first love continues to top the list of the most performed operas around the world. Puccini's talent for capturing emotion in music takes spectators back to the first experience of being in love. The story is about four friends - a painter, a musician, a philosopher and a poet - and about friendship and falling in love. Samuel Dundas, Shane Lowrencev, David Parkin and James Egglestone will play the four main roles. Bass-baritone Shane Lowrencev is a full-time principal artist with Opera Australia. He won the Australian Singing Competition's Opera Awards in 2008, featuring the Youth Music Foundation of Australia Inc Award. Baritone Samuel Dundas joined Opera Australia as a member … [Read more...] about Australian opera singers to enthral Hà Nội

Artwork exhibition focuses on sea and naval forces
Forty works of sculpture, paintings, graphics and photography, featuring the sea and navy soldiers are on display in Ha Noi to celebrate the Viet Nam People's Navy Force's 60th anniversary.
Twenty-eight lecturers of the Viet Nam Fine Arts University are participating in the exhibition, entitled Bien, Dao To Quoc va Nguoi Chien Sy Hai Quan (Country's Sea, Islands and Navy Soldiers), to express their love for the sea and islands and admiration for navy sailors, through various materials such as oil-on-canvas, acrylic, natural colours and water colours, as well as metal composites and mixed materials.
"The artworks not only depict many beautiful and vivid images of the sea, islands and navy soldiers, but also show the artists' love, responsibilities and belief in the force," Colonel Mai Trong Dinh, an official from the force, said. "The artists have focused on the life and feelings of the sailors working in Truong Sa (Spratly) … [Read more...] about Art & Entertainment News 7/5

Vui Day
Sun 13 Dec 2015, 9 am – 4 pm
Yen So park, Hanoi
Vui Day is a nonprofit playground with the participation of several social enterprises specializing in art, education and health. Providing innovative products for social values, they look forward to spreading this spirit to the community through Vui Day!
Activities: VUI DAY = PICNIC + SHOPPING + CREATIVITY + CHARITY + MUSIC OUTDOOR…
The event is to raise money for children in mountainous areas. The proceed collected from ticket sales of Vui Day will be used to build community playgrounds at schools to motivate the children in school days.
Participation fee:
Family package: 600 000 VND (max 6 people) (out of stock)
Personal package: 150 000 VND/pax joining all above activities
Register link here. Hotline 096 2277 480 or 094 3736 385
Live Minimal Disco with Roscius (France) and Cervo (UK)
Fri 11 Dec 2015, 8 pm
ATK
73a Mai Hac De, Hanoi
Come to a live minimal disco act with Roscius (France) and Cervo (UK). Cervo … [Read more...] about WHAT’S ON DECEMBER 1-15 (DAILY UPDATE)

The 13th Hennessy Concert to open in Hanoi The 13th Hennessy Concert with a performance by the world-renowned cellist, Julian Lloyd Webber and Indian pianist, Pam Chowhan, will take place at the Hanoi Opera House on March 6, Vietnam News Agency reports. The event is co-organized by the National Art Performance Centre under the Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism and Moet Hennessy Asia Pacific. The program promises to introduce a colorful and diverse music performance with a harmony of music genres. The two artists will perform works by Bach, Faure, Debussy, Camille Saint-Saens and Brahms, in addition to works by the different generations of the Lloyd Webber family.Julian Lloyd Webber is a talented cellist who won a scholarship from the Royal Music University at the age of 16 and received tuition from the renowned cellist, Pierre Fournier in Geneva. He has won many music awards and has released numerous works on CD, including Elgar's "Concerto", which earned him a U.K BRIT award. He … [Read more...] about The 13th Hennessy Concert to open in Hanoi

Local news sites remain blocked
Users remain blocked from the websites of Vietnamese newspapers with platforms hosted by the Vietnam Communications Corporation (VCCorp) since October 13.
The newspapers include Thoi bao Kinh te Viet Nam (Vietnam Economic Times) at , Nguoi Lao Dong (Labourers) at and Gia Dinh Xa Hoi (Family and Society). Other company websites have the same issues.
Nguyen The Tan, deputy general director of VCCorp, told Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper that the breakdown of its Data Center system has resulted in the websites' inaccessibility.
He said the company was prioritising the repair of the newspaper websites to enable them to re-open.
Asked about the reasons for the breakdown, Tan said the company needed to check further and verify, although it specified errors in the Data Center system. He added that it was possible the sites were hacked.
Vietnam, Australia promote cooperation in science and technology
A Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) was signed between the … [Read more...] about Social News 19/10